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K. F. FAELCHLE. BAKING PAN. FILED Aus. 30. 1920.

ATTORNEY;

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. ipplicationliled August 30, 1920. Serial No. 405,874.

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Be it lmown that l lmnii l.

residing; at

Site of Ohio have invented a certain new and useful .lmprovementin Baking Pans, of which the following: i a :ngecilication,

in the accompany! drawings :iorming part hereof duced with myimprovement. I r

Sandwich bread is desirably square 111 cii'osssectionqso that when the sandwich is cut diagonally each triangular half appears like the other. Sandwich loaves as now pro duced almostinvariably have a sag; in the top such as illustrated in Fig. L When a sandwich is made with slices from such a ljoa'l. it has been the custom of chefs to trim the slices to more nearl' snare form so that upon dizpgonal cutting: the resulting triangles *shall be syn'imetricaland of attractiveland appetizing term. This trimming has resulted in an enormous waste and the loss otthe most valuable portion of the bread the crust. The problem that confronted me for a time was to produce a sandwich lost by which this loss and trouble is avoided; No skill in the preparation, manipulation or baking'ot the dough with the pans and covers in common use appears to have been adequate to prevent the sagging o l" the top. l have solved. the problem by employing a pan 5% the body of which is square, as usual, in cross section.

andoi' the desired length. Such loaves are usuallymade quite long. Instead of the flat cover heretofore employed ll employ for the pan a cover 6 bulged or arched upward, as

shown at 6, at its top just sufiiciently to allo-WiEor the risingof the bread. in the ordinarybaking of ordinary dough to an extent sufficient to permit the top of the baked loaf tb fall orshrink to the level of the top of vthe loaf are planes.

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the pan. In baking the natural or normal tendency of the bread to rise might be to a much greater extent than the space allowed in. the bulge, but this tendency to rise is re sistcd by my cover and the rise limited to substantially the manta-a d. 'llhe result is that all four ot the longitudinal faces oi? its a concrete example of the operation oi the device described let it be a su 'ned that the loaf is to be ot the standard pound and halt size. In this case the pan is fifteen and three quarters inches long, three and one fourth inches deep and three and three quarters inches MTlflQ. lnto' this pan is placed twenty-six l ilit'h my invention the bread risesapjainst the cover and its undue rise is resisted, the top being more or less baked and termed with a crust at the cover so that in sin ing after baking it falls only to a level with the top otthe pan and as illustrated in Fig. at therebj, producinga prism otbread with all its faces flat. The extent of the fall of the bread therefore controlled by limitin its As shown in my drawing for baking; of ordinary dough an elongated loaf the cover in cross section is bulged outward from the plane of the top of the pan upon substantially the arc of a circle having for Its radius a line approximately "EW'JCG the depth of the pan. To provide for the escape of gases or vapors generated in baking the coveris provided at the top of the bulge with a suital'ile number of small vents such as shown at 6. With this device 1 have been. able; produce many thousands of properly baked sandwich loaves square in cross section or substantially shown in F 4; where the'added broken line indirates the shapethe loaf takes at the top in the halting process, and the full lines the shape it assumes alter removal from the pan vor upon the removal of the cover.

Oi? coursa the principle oi my invention can be used in baking; loaves of other prismatic form and where it is desirable that the faces of the loznf shall be planes, hence the forms of the parts can be varied Without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

What I claim is: v The combination of an elongated open top pan substantially rectangular in longitudinal section and substantinll square in cross section, a. removable cover for the pan fitting against the top side edges of the pan and curved upwardly from the edges upon an :UC oi at circle having a radius; approximately twice the depth of the pun,

KARL F. FAELCIILE. 

